Jack Ruby

The Dallas Club Owner Who Shot Lee Oswald

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Award-winning investigative journalist Jack Anderson wrote:

The man who eliminated Oswald, sleazy Dallas nightclub owner
named Jack Ruby, claimed he was overcome by grief for Jackie
Kennedy and her children. He shot Oswald as the accused assassin
was being transferred from a city jail to a county jail on November
24. IT COULD HARDLY HAVE BEEN AN IMPULSIVE ACT. He infiltrated
the jail with a loaded pistol in his pocket at the exact time
of the transfer. Then he confronted Oswald, whose front was strangely
unprotected in a phalanx of seventy armed lawmen.

Ruby hardly fit the model of a patriot-turned-vigilante.
By his own admission, he hadn't voted for Kennedy, nor had he
bothered to watch the president's motorcade in Dallas. Witnesses
had overheard him making derogatory remarks about Kennedy that
indicated he shared the mob's animosity for the first family.
By all accounts except his own, Ruby was a two-bit nightclub
operator who had never shown passion for anything except money.
. . .

Washington cop Joe Shimon told me it was Trafficante who
called in the mob's chits with Ruby and ordered him to kill Oswald.
(PEACE, WAR, AND POLITICS, p. 117, emphasis added)

During the Friday night "press
conference" with Lee Oswald at the Dallas Police Station, then District
Attorney Henry Wade said that Lee Oswald was a member of the "Free Cuba
Movement," Ruby corrected him, stating: Fair Play for Cuba." As Ruby
testified to Chief Justice Warren:

And they questioned Henry Wade, "what
organization did he belong to," or something. And if I recall, I think
Henry Wade answered, "Free Cuba." And I corrected Henry Wade,
because listening to the radio or KLIF, it stood out in my mind that it
was "Fair Play Cuba." There was a difference. So he said, "Oh
yes, Fair Play Cuba," and he corrected that.

We left out in the hallway, and I saw Henry Wade standing there, and I went
over to him and said, "Henry, I want you to know I was the one that
corrected you." I think it is a childish thing, but I met Henry Wade
sometime back, and I knew he would recognize me. By the way, it was "Fair
Play Cuba," or something to that effect.Actual newsreel footage. To play this clip, you will need Real
Player 5.0.

Ruby (1992) Order the movie.Synopsis: Ruby is a minor mobster who left the
Chicago Mafia to open a strip club in Dallas. Struggling for money,
he informs for the FBI while maintaining ties to the Mob. And
that dual allegiance makes him the perfect fall guy. Jack Ruby,
the Dallas strip club owner murdered President Kennedy's assassin,
Lee Harvey Oswald, on live television.

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